Melissa Rivers Quotes

My son Cooper has just turned ten and the sarcasm fairy has already started to take up residence inside his body. Not only am I living with my mother - again! - but I've also got her mini-me to contend with.

Melissa Rivers

• Mother
• Sarcasm
• Residence
• Contend

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• Education is the mother of leadership.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Mother
  • Education
  • Leadership

• If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Mother

• My mother and I were very close and even when I left home and came to London I would ring her every day. She was very proud of me and loved my celebrity. She would often come to shoots and TV shows with me.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Home
  • She
  • Mother

• The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Father

• I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Work
  • Mother
  • Connect

• My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • Real
  • Family
  • Mother

• My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Amazing

• There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Mother
  • Mom
  • Sleep

• Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • History
  • Mother
  • Poetry

• My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive.

  

  Ice T
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Black

• We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Children
  • True
  • Mother

• Ever since my mother sent me to Saturday morning grammar classes when I was 7, I wanted to become a famous actor. I loved the idea of captivating an audience and moving them truly through performance, but more importantly being recognized and heavily lauded for that talent.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Mother
  • Morning
  • Moving

• Mother's father and brothers all took great interest in pugilism, and they knew the game well from much practice of their own. They were never so much delighted as when I visited them with a black eye or a bloody nose, at which time they would be at the trouble to give cunning points as to how to meet an opponent according to his weight and height.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Time
  • Great
  • Mother

• As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Mother
  • Feel
  • Better

• I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Mother
  • Reading
  • Wish

• Blessed sister, holy mother, spirit of the fountain, spirit of the garden, Suffer us not to mock ourselves with falsehood Teach us to care and not to care

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Mother
  • Blessed
  • Sister

• You blessed my life!Never on me had rested woman's love.My mother even could not find me fair:I had no sister; and, when grown a man,I feared the mistress who would mock at me.But I have had your friendship - grace to youA woman's charm has passed across my path.

  

  Edmond Rostand
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Path

• The world increasingly allows girls to be whoever they wish to be- homemaker, mother, secretary, executive.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Mother
  • Wish

• My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.

  

  Pete Seeger
  • Life
  • Good
  • Mother

• I am, of course, directly descended from Brian Boru, the last king of Ireland, a fact certified by my mother and therefore beyond dispute. But as everybody else with a drop of Irish blood in his carcass is also a guaranteed descendant of the old billy goat, I am not overly arrogant because of this royal strain.

  

  Preston Sturges
  • Mother
  • King
  • Irish

• In my experience, the best way to deal with such people is to politely agree with everything they say, then ignore them.

  

  Charles Stross
  • People
  • Experience
  • Ignore

• The team is in great shape, the coaching staff, the front office. Just things feel really good chemistry-wise across the board.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Good
  • Great
  • Team

• We have seen a major decomposition of French political life, of the old political mainstream parties, and what we see now is a real new configuration which is emerging between the patriots and the new liberals.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • Life
  • Real
  • Political

• My son Cooper has just turned ten and the sarcasm fairy has already started to take up residence inside his body. Not only am I living with my mother - again! - but I've also got her mini-me to contend with.

  

  Melissa Rivers
  • Mother
  • Sarcasm
  • Residence